Building Worker Power in Global Supply Chains: Lessons from Apparel, Cocoa, and Seafood

“This working paper is about the campaigners and worker organizers in the global South and North who have challenged the persistent lack of government and corporate accountability for workers’ rights …

Initial Assessment Report for a complaint filed by a coalition of 28 organizations about the activities of Levis Strauss & Co. (Canada) Inc.

The complaint alleges that Levi Strauss has commercial relationships with a Chinese company that is identified as using Uyghur forced labour — Jiangsu Guotai Guosheng. In order to address the …

ASSOCIATION FOR THE RIGHTS OF HOUSEHOLD AND FARM WORKERS v. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA

This strategic litigation case is a highly significant one, both historically and globally. Canada and the world’s development are increasingly associated with international labour (im)migration schemes. With the abolition of …

Ethical digitalisation at work: From theory to practice

“Automation and digitisation technologies, including artificial intelligence, are rapidly evolving and becoming increasingly powerful and pervasive. The full range of their effects in the workplace is yet to be seen. …

US: New Board Decisions Seek to Facilitate Collective Bargaining

“The National Labor Relations Board issued two complementary decisions on August 26, 2023, with a view to facilitating the collective bargaining process, the capstone of what amounted to an energetic and exciting week at the …

Report on European Labor and Social Security Law

“HSI Report 1/2023 reports on the development of case law and legislation in the area of labour and social security law at European and international level in the period from …

Chipping Away at the Right to Strike

On June 1, the Supreme Court issued a significant decision against the labor movement in Glacier Northwest v. Teamsters Local Union No. 174. In an 8–1 split, the Court found that …

Miller Plastic Products, Inc. and Ronald Vincer. Case 06–CA–266234 (NLRB)

In March 2020, during the early stages of the COVID- 19 pandemic, the Respondent terminated employee Ronald Vincer for raising concerns about its COVID pro- tocols and decision to remain …

BITTER HARVEST: SUPPLY CHAIN OPPRESSION AND THE LEGAL EXCLUSION OF AGRICULTURAL WORKERS

Persistent exploitation of farmworkers is a defining problem of our time. An estimated 32% of the global population is employed in agriculture. At the base of global food systems, agricultural …

Biden’s NLRB Brings Workers’ Rights Back From the Dead

Last Friday, the National Labor Relations Board released its most important ruling in many decades. In a party-line decision in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC, the Board ruled that when a majority of …

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